Welcome to Inner Cinema. Are you looking for high quality art prints made from micrographs of real neurons cultured in a lab dish? Of course you are. You've come to the right place.
When you look closely at Inner Cinema images, the random symmetries seem to form recognisable objects in our imaginations, particularly eyes. This "pareidolia" arises because we're hardwired to pay attention to certain things in our environment which carry large amounts of salient information for us. The human environment is remarkably social, making us experts at recognising the presence of eyes and reading intention in them. However, because we are also constantly inferring all kinds of patterns from minimal information, we often make false positive errors, which becomes evident when we look closely at ambiguous stimuli from Inner Cinema. The fact that the ambiguous imagery is literally composed of neuronal networks, the very basis of pattern recognition and all other aspects of cognition, forms a wonderful recursion.
The Inner Cinema dreamscape was born in January 2020, and is the brainchild of Sally Salomonsson, a Swedish third year neuroscience PhD student at the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London. Please contact her via the contact form above, or via her instagram @lastdecimalsofpi for collaborations and commissions, or if you have any questions about the science behind the images.